Being speaker has afforded me a unique opportunity to serve parliament, for which I am immensely grateful.
We’re going to run against Nancy Pelosi in 2018. We’ll remind people in 2018 – what’s the rhetorical question – ‘Do you really want Nancy Pelosi back as speaker of the House?’
I am supporting many Republican candidates who embrace the principles and policies set forth in Speaker Ryan’s vision and who are committed to moving our country forward on the right path.
I never thought that being a public speaker would teach me so much about life and make it so beautiful as well.
I like to play around with people who don’t know me. Often I’m talking to people through my speaker phone, and after 10 minutes or so they say, ‘Wait a minute, Marlee, how can you hear me?’ They forget I have an interpreter there who is signing to me as they talk. So I say, ‘You know what? I can hear on Wednesdays.’
We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human – and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs.
All of us know that when the confidence of a private conversation is breached by a party with ulterior motives or one who simply misunderstands what the speaker says or means, the speaker can always be embarrassed.
When I’m standing in front of all those lawmakers in the European Parliament, then I’m a speaker, when I’m singing, I’m a singer. If I’m on the catwalk, then I’m being a model. That can all happen in one week or even on the same day.
Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.
Sometimes I’ll put on a Zig Ziglar tape: he’s a motivational speaker who is really funny and really American. I know I should do the things he says, but I’m too cynical.
The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.
There’s always been music in my house growing up. In the kitchen, there’s a speaker, and we’d always have my mum’s iPod in it – she never makes food without listening to music. And I used to watch ‘Top of the Pops’ with my dad.
I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president – as a speaker at the United Nations.
I agree with the Speaker and have concluded that my other activities do not permit me to devote the time that membership of the Lords properly requires.
I was pretty sure I lacked the wisdom to be the commencement speaker, but after stewing over the idea for about 48 hours, I decided that if the senior class at the University of Wisconsin wants me to come speak, I’ll do whatever they ask me. I love that school.
I didn’t need to be speaker because I needed a fancy title or a big office. I wanted to be speaker so I could lead an effort to deal with the serious issues that are facing our country.
Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.
Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
I was Speaker of the House in Florida, first Republican speaker in 120 years. And I totally dismantled the way this House worked and turned it around to what I believe is right.
Christmas Day we get all the dogs and the cats and make breakfast and open presents and then go to the backyard – because it is always like 100 degrees in L.A. – and we get a speaker and play fun ’80s music and dance outside with all the animals.
I’m not that great of a speaker. I don’t like watching my own interviews. I think I suck at talking, but one thing I can do is move my pen, and if that’s how I gotta speak to my daughter, then let me do that.
I’m trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I’m not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That’s her first language. I don’t want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.
Look at almost any passage, and you’ll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It’s not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it’s just that that’s the way language works.
No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
I didn’t plan on running for speaker, but I don’t see anyone else stepping up. I know I’m the underdog.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
I’m not a native English speaker but do post tweets in English.
In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.
I would go bold: you don’t have to be a member of Congress to be the speaker of the House. I would support someone like Dr. Carson or somebody like that; I think that would be good.
At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun ‘at work’ and getting paid for it!
I often wonder, when I hear some important speaker rattle off the rote land acknowledgements that have become the standard introduction for official events in this country, whether Indigenous people are getting sick of being constantly and dolefully reminded of who owns their land now.
Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation’s children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.
I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.
I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don’t mean one who’s polished, I just mean one who’s through.
Madam Speaker, it is time to halt illegal entry into this country. It is time to halt the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into this great Nation, and it is time to secure our borders.
Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.
My father is my true inspiration. He’s a motivational speaker, so he does a fine job of guiding me.
I love Paul Heyman, I think he’s the most talented speaker.
Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
I have this old speaker set with amps and a record player from the 1970s. And I’m slowly collecting vinyl again.
As Speaker of the North Carolina House, I’ve proven I’m a problem-solver, balancing budgets, cutting wasteful spending, and providing teachers with historic pay raises.
I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don’t like speaking in front of people, I don’t think I’m bad at it.
If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
It’s hard when you’re not a native speaker, because everyone’s laughing, and you’re like, ‘What was that? Can you tell me again?’
Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.
I really wanna do a Spanish album. I have that Latin culture background. It’s a part of me. I’m not the best Spanish speaker, but I have a longing to connect with that. I just think how supportive the Latin community has been, even during ‘Idol.’ I’d like to give back with something like that.
Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.
My process is walking down to the locker room, laying everything out to how I like it. I’m very particular about setting up my bags and my dressing situation. I love to pull out that portable speaker and blare music even if nobody else likes it. To me, its just keeping everything the same every single night.
Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants’ labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.
You have to make some hard decisions when you’re speaker.
I expect if you’re a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn’t want to go onstage and sing and play drums.
Being the keynote speaker at the convention this year is an honor I don’t take lightly. I know I’ve got some big shoes to fill. Two conventions ago, the keynote speaker was a guy named Barack Obama.
